And so dear Father,
bless every upraised hand,
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every upraised heart
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and we say this
prayer in Jesus name, amen.
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The following presentation
was made by John Carter
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to a crowd of more
than 100,000 souls.
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This message is one
of a truth filled series
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that was delivered in the
power of God's Holy Spirit
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at the Sir John Guise Stadium,
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Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
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One night, as the evangelist
spoke about the Holy Spirit,
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a giant white bird flew
low over the vast audience
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and the people rejoiced
that God had visited His people.
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Crowd surged forward to accept
Christ as Lord and Savior.
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A few days later,
thousands were baptized
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in the sea at Ela Beach.
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All who attended these
Holy Spirit anointed meetings
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were convinced
that God's word is true
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and His gospel is
still the power of God
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for the salvation
of all who believed.
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The message you're
about to hear and see
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will not leave
you the same person.
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Welcome to the Carter Report
at the Sir John Guise Stadium,
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Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
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The topic tonight here it is.
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You're ready for
"Wonder Cities of the Past."
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What are the
essential characteristics
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of genuine prophecy?
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Well, let me
tell you. Number one.
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Prophecies got to be
plain and unambiguous.
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Number two. Not
just a calculated guess.
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Number three.
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It needs to be verifiable,
that means it must have
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the capacity of being tested.
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If you can't test the prophecy,
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how can you tell
whether it is true or false?
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One great
philosopher of our day and age
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made this remark, here it is.
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If genuine
prophecy, here it comes.
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If genuine prophecy
exists, let me say it again.
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"If genuine prophecy exists
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then the main
issues of life are met."
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Now listen to
me what I'm saying.
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If I can show to you
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that there is a
genuine prophecy in the Bible,
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then I've shown you the
evidence of the supernatural.
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No person here has
the gift of prophecy.
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We can make calculated guess,
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but none of us have
the gift of prophecy.
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But if genuine prophecy exists
in the main issues of the age,
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the ain--main
issues of life are met.
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If there is a genuine
prophecy then I know who I am.
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I am a child of
God. I'm not a machine.
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I'm not an animal as
the communist thought.
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I'm not an
animal. I'm not a machine.
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I'm the child of God,
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because the Bible
tells me in the beginning,
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God created the
heavens and the earth.
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And the Bible tells me
that there is a God who loves us
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and who send his own Son
and He died for us on the cross.
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Are you listening to me tonight?
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I want to hear from
you. Are you listening to me?
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I want you to know tonight
we're going to touch the divine,
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better still the
divine is going to touch us.
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Here we go.
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Two and a half
thousand years ago,
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a young king in a far end
city many, many miles from here.
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The fable city of
Babylon had a dreamer
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that foretold the
history of the world.
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Listen now as you've
never listened before
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and you be the judge.
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Going to come for moment
over here to the blackboards
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and I'm going to set up
where we are going to go
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tonight and some other nights.
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Here we have the
Mediterranean Sea,
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the great sea and
there is the land of Egypt
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and we've talked
about these things
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and then you come across--
here is the city of Jerusalem
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and we come across
to the great desert
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and we come over here--
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I want, I hope you
folks can see this.
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You have the Persian Gulf
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and there you have
the land of Mesopotamia.
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And Mesopotamia
means quite simply
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the land between the rivers.
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And this is where we're
going to take you tonight,
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we call it today Iraq.
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You have the two
great rivers there,
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the Euphrates and the Tigris.
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These are famous, famous rivers
that are mentioned in the Bible.
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The Euphrates River and
over here you have the Tigris
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and seated upon
the great Euphrates,
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you have the
fable city of Babylon.
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And this was once
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one of the greatest
cities of the ancient world
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and thousands of
years ago a young king,
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his name was Nebuchadnezzar.
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And Nebuchadnezzar went to bed.
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He was a politician.
He was a philosopher.
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But most and first and foremost
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he was
potentate, he was a dictator
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and he went to bed with
thoughts of fear troubling him.
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His city was perhaps
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the greatest city
of the ancient world.
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It was the city my friend,
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as I mentioned to you on
the great River Euphrates.
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There you have in a
larger form the River Euphrates.
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And the great city of Babylon
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was seated upon
this great river.
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Up the north here you had
one of the king's great palaces.
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The system of fortifications
was quite amazing.
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The city was surrounded by not
one wall or two walls or three,
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but it had four massive walls
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with a total
thickness of 84 feet
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and the length of the
walls was more than 11miles.
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It was a formidable city,
the capital of a great empire
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and the king was Nebuchadnezzar.
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Can you say that word?
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Can you say Nebuchadnezzar?
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I want you to say out loud
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on the count of
three Nebuchadnezzar,
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1, 2, 3.
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Nebuchadnezzar.
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Not bad. So, so,
we're gonna do it again.
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When I say
three, Nebuchadnezzar,
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1, 2, 3,
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Nebuchadnezzar.
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And he was the king of
this tremendous empire,
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some say the greatest empire.
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Now I'm gonna show you
a few pictures of this.
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I got more to tell you
tonight then I can get through,
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but wait, I'm so
excited about this tonight.
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I'm getting sort of steamed up.
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It was the city back to Babylon,
city of temples and altars.
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53 temples of the chief gods.
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300 chapels for earthly gods.
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600 chapels for heavenly Gods.
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They were super
religious, but not super good.
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And they had a king over them,
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a young king who
was a world dictator
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and his name was, tell me?
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Come on. What was his name?
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Come on. Come on.
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Come on. Nebuchadnezzar.
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And he was--there he
is. I got of picture of him.
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He was the king who
ruled this tremendous empire
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and he had the dream of destiny.
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He attacked the
city of Jerusalem,
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the city of the
Jews, the people of God.
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And a young prisoner by the name
of Daniel was taken prisoner.
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And he is the hero of the story
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because tonight a dream
was given by Almighty God
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that foretold the
history of the world,
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the 2,500 years and tells
us about the next world ruler.
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Now people have come to my
meetings and they've said--
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they've said to me, you know,
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we don't believe
any of this stuff.
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They say, there
was no Nebuchadnezzar.
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No, no, no, there was
no, no Nebuchadnezzar.
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The Bible is
just a book of fables.
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You can't believe the Bible.
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I want to say to
the university students
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and others who are
coming here tonight
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and people have come
to you and they have said,
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you can't believe the Bible.
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Tell them what you're hearing
in these meetings and tell them
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about Nebuchadnezzar's
building list, wow.
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That's written in
the cuneiform language.
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It was found over
there in the city of Babylon.
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And it talks
about Nebuchadnezzar
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building the city of Babylon
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and it talks about all
the buildings he put up.
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The skeptics were
wrong. The Bible was right.
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There was a Nebuchadnezzar.
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Now, scholars came along
with a different problem,
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they-- The Bible says
that the last king of Babylon
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was a profligate by
the name of Belshazzar.
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Don't you like the word?
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Belshazzar, that's
what the Bible says.
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But secular
historians back there said,
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the last king of Babylon was
a man by the name of Nabonidus.
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And so they said the
Bible has got to be wrong now.
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I want you to look over here.
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This is a clay
cylinder marking the restoration
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of the temple of the Moon
God at Ur by King Nabonidus.
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It ends with a
prayer-- what does this say?
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For him and his son, Belshazzar.
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Skeptics didn't
have a word to say.
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You see Nabonidus was the
last king, but he retired.
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He went up into the hill country
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and he passed over the
kingdom to his son Belshazzar
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and so Belshazzar
was the ruling monarch
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and that's why
he said to Daniel,
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if you can read the dream
you're going to be the third,
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number three in the kingdom
because the first was his dad
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and the second was himself
and the third would be Daniel.
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The Bible was proved
to be absolutely correct.
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I want to tell the
people of this part of the world
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as I've told the
Russians, as I've told the KGB,
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as I've told the Indians,
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you can believe in
the God of the Bible,
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you can believe in the
Bible because the Bible,
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I tell you is the word of God.
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And I'm not just
saying these things.
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I'm not appealing to a motion.
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People say, well, you
give us too many facts.
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Don't you want
facts? What do you want?
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When a person says that to
me, you give me too many facts.
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Do they want lies?
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We're not here
tonight to talk lies.
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We're here tonight to talk
about the unsaleable truths
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of the Bible and prophecy.
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But even the mighty fall.
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Babylon was captured.
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And the overthrow of Babylon was
predicted by the Prophet Isaiah.
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Chapter 45:1-3.
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And we put this up
here on this giant screens
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and I want you to notice these
words that were written 700 BC.
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"This is what the Lord
says to his anointed to Cyrus,
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whose right hand I take hold
of to subdue nations before him
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and to strip
kings of their armor,
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to open doors before him so
that gates will not be shut.
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I will go before you and
will level the mountains,
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I will break
down gates of bronze
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and cut through bars of iron.
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I will give you the
treasures of darkness,
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richness stored
in secret places,
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so that you may
know that I am the Lord,
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the God of Israel,
who summons you by name."
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Listen to the story.
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This is talking about Cyrus,
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more than 100
years before he was born.
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This is the famous Cyrus
Cylinder that is found today
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in the British museum
that I carefully examined.
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Cyrus was mentioned
by the Bible prophet
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more than 100
years before he was born.
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Here is undeniable
proof that there is a God
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and the Bible is true.
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Now the prophet
Isaiah said in another place
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that the River
Euphrates would be dried up
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and let me tell you
what the historian says,
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as I come over
here to the blackboard.
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Cyrus marched against
the great city of Babylon
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and surrounded it on all sides,
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but it was an
impregnable fortress city,
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he couldn't
batter down the walls.
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Inside Belshazzar was
having a drunken feast
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and remember the saying,
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"When the wine is
in, the wit is out."
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He was drunk with
his ladies and his lords
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and his concubines and
his generals, they were drunk.
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And Cyrus the Great
caused a great drain to be dug
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and drew away the
waters of the River Euphrates
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into an artificial
lake, out goes the water.
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And while the king and
his officers were drunk,
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I want you to see this.
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I want you to see
this on the blackboard.
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Cyrus the great
marched his soldiers
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down the banks of
the Euphrates River,
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they waited along
the bottom of the river.
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And when they got to
the great gates of Babylon
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exactly as the Bible
said, the gates were not locked.
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God said that
gates will not be locked.
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And so the
soldiers of Cyrus the great
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got to the gates of Babylon
and the gates were not locked
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and they flooded like
the River Euphrates itself
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into the city of Babylon.
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That night, the blood
of the King Belshazzar
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mingled with the
wine of the banquet hall.
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There it was my friend,
a rebellion against God,
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they said we do
not believe in God
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and they desecrated the secret
vessels from the Hebrew Temple
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and God said you've done enough.
00:16:47.53\00:16:49.87
Let me tell you something.
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It was a night of
wine, women, and song.
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The sacred
vessels had been taken
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from the temple in Jerusalem.
00:17:02.98\00:17:05.81
Now the foolish young drunken,
what a curse alcohol is.
00:17:05.84\00:17:13.13
When he was drunk, he
said, bring in the vessels.
00:17:13.16\00:17:16.53
And they drank wine
out of the sacred vessels
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of All Mighty God.
00:17:19.72\00:17:22.55
As they were drinking,
a bloodless hand started
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to write on the
wall and the words were
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"Mene Mene
00:17:33.24\00:17:38.56
Tekel Upharsin."
00:17:38.59\00:17:44.86
So they call in
Daniel the Prophet of God.
00:17:44.89\00:17:48.68
The king says what is
it mean? He's shaking.
00:17:48.71\00:17:54.55
The prophet
said, God has numbered
00:17:54.58\00:17:58.68
the days of your reign
and brought it to an end.
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You have been weighed on
the scales and found wanting.
00:18:04.07\00:18:08.99
Your kingdom is divided
00:18:09.02\00:18:11.30
and given to the
Medes and the Persians.
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Judgment day
came for Belshazzar.
00:18:18.08\00:18:22.45
It will come for
you. It will come for me.
00:18:22.48\00:18:27.11
But this was a man
who knew the truth of God
00:18:27.14\00:18:30.46
and who had given in
up and turned away from it
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in his heathenism
and in his paganism
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that was the
overthrow of Babylon.
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What is Babylon like today?
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I take my dear old Bible
and I turn to Isaiah 13:19
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and I'm going to read it to
you right off the screen here,
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so that you can see it
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because we've got such a vast
crowd of people here tonight.
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This was written many, many
years before Cyrus the great.
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Here it is.
00:19:03.95\00:19:05.38
"Babylon, the jewel of kingdoms,
00:19:05.41\00:19:08.03
the glory of the
Babylonians' pride,
00:19:08.06\00:19:11.08
will be overthrown by
God like Sodom and Gomorrah.
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She will never be
inhabited or lived in
00:19:15.12\00:19:17.25
through all generations,
00:19:17.28\00:19:19.48
no Arab will
pitch his tent there,
00:19:19.51\00:19:22.38
no shepherd will
rest his flock there.
00:19:22.41\00:19:25.84
But desert
creatures will lie there,
00:19:25.87\00:19:28.60
jackals will fill her houses,
00:19:28.63\00:19:31.33
there the owls will dwell,
00:19:31.36\00:19:33.50
and there the wild
goats will leap about.
00:19:33.53\00:19:37.03
Hyenas will howl
in her strongholds,
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jackals in her
luxurious palaces.
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Her time is at hand, and
her days will not be prolonged."
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I've been there
many, many times.
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I'm going to show you
what I saw when I went there.
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When I went there I
saw unparallel devastation.
00:20:01.72\00:20:08.78
I was taking a
television crew there
00:20:08.81\00:20:12.60
and as I was
climbing up the hill
00:20:12.63\00:20:14.91
into Nebuchadnezzar's palace
00:20:14.94\00:20:18.58
something happened
that gave me goosebumps.
00:20:18.61\00:20:22.81
A little jackal ran out
00:20:22.84\00:20:24.71
of one of the rooms of
Nebuchadnezzar's palace.
00:20:24.74\00:20:28.99
And I picked up the
Bible that I believe in
00:20:29.02\00:20:32.80
and I open my Bible to
the prophecy of Isaiah 13
00:20:32.83\00:20:39.08
and I said indeed Babylon
tonight is in the very condition
00:20:39.11\00:20:45.59
that the Bible said it would be
00:20:45.62\00:20:47.89
in thousands and
thousand of years ago.
00:20:47.92\00:20:53.67
The overthrow of
the Babylonian Empire
00:20:53.70\00:20:57.47
by the
supernatural of working of God
00:20:57.50\00:21:00.91
through His
servant Cyrus the great
00:21:00.94\00:21:04.21
is one of the
greatest proofs in the world
00:21:04.24\00:21:08.06
that there is an Almighty
God and that the Bible the true.
00:21:08.09\00:21:15.91
Now listen, listen.
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One night, what's
the name of the king?
00:21:19.97\00:21:25.57
Come on, what's
the name of the king?
00:21:25.60\00:21:26.97
Come on, come on, come on.
00:21:27.00\00:21:28.37
Talk aback to me when I say it.
00:21:28.40\00:21:30.02
Who is the name of the king?
00:21:30.05\00:21:31.90
Nebuchadnezzar. Nebuchadnezzar.
00:21:31.93\00:21:33.82
Nebuchadnezzar goes to sleep.
00:21:33.85\00:21:36.85
When he goes to
sleep, he has a dream
00:21:36.88\00:21:41.73
and the dream troubles
him. It's like a nightmare.
00:21:41.76\00:21:47.13
And the story is
told in the scriptures
00:21:47.16\00:21:49.28
about the king's dream.
00:21:49.31\00:21:53.04
This is the
fabulous dream of destiny.
00:21:53.07\00:21:58.81
I don't know anything
in the world more amazing
00:21:58.84\00:22:01.61
than what you're
going to hear tonight.
00:22:01.64\00:22:04.22
As the ancient Egyptian
said, this is the finger of God.
00:22:04.25\00:22:10.34
He goes to sleep
and he has a dream.
00:22:10.37\00:22:13.08
It's like a nightmare.
00:22:13.11\00:22:14.62
And he wakes up and he
calls in the magicians.
00:22:14.65\00:22:17.46
Well, the
magicians can't help anybody.
00:22:17.49\00:22:20.35
But he calls in all
the magicians he said,
00:22:20.38\00:22:22.67
I've had a dream. I
can't remember the dream.
00:22:22.70\00:22:28.13
Now I want you to tell me
00:22:28.16\00:22:30.85
what I dreamed and
tell me what it means?
00:22:30.88\00:22:35.01
And the magicians say
this is absolutely impossible.
00:22:35.04\00:22:39.66
There is no person
on the face of the earth
00:22:39.69\00:22:41.85
can help the king with
this matter except the Gods
00:22:41.88\00:22:45.57
and they do not
live with human beings.
00:22:45.60\00:22:49.04
And so the king
gets tremendously angry
00:22:49.07\00:22:51.50
and he sends out
his soldiers and says,
00:22:51.53\00:22:53.66
kill all the
wise men of Babylon.
00:22:53.69\00:22:56.00
Now there is this Daniel
who is a true prophet of God
00:22:56.03\00:23:01.48
and he was caste
in the same light
00:23:01.51\00:23:03.74
by the king as the
rest of the wise men
00:23:03.77\00:23:06.54
and so they come to kill Daniel,
who comes from Jerusalem.
00:23:06.57\00:23:10.70
But Daniel says, why
is the king so crazy?
00:23:10.73\00:23:13.18
Why is he so mad?
00:23:13.21\00:23:15.24
He said, I'm a
believer in the true God,
00:23:15.27\00:23:18.58
take me in before the
king and I'll talk to the king.
00:23:18.61\00:23:22.04
So he goes in before the king
and he says, king live forever.
00:23:22.07\00:23:26.60
I believe in the true God.
God will answer your prayer.
00:23:26.63\00:23:30.40
I can't--he says, let
me go home and let me pray
00:23:30.43\00:23:34.44
with my friends
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.
00:23:34.47\00:23:38.00
Let me go home.
00:23:38.03\00:23:39.40
And we're going to
have a real prayer meeting
00:23:39.43\00:23:41.46
and we're going
to ask God to give us
00:23:41.49\00:23:43.72
the same dream that
you had, think of this.
00:23:43.75\00:23:47.10
How can a person tell
another man what he dreamed?
00:23:47.13\00:23:50.43
And so they pray that
night and that night the dream
00:23:50.46\00:23:54.26
is reveled by the Spirit of God
to Daniel and his companions.
00:23:54.29\00:23:59.46
And so the next
day he rushes back,
00:23:59.49\00:24:02.62
he rushes back into the--
he's taken into the throne room
00:24:02.65\00:24:05.93
and the king says,
can you tell me the dream?
00:24:05.96\00:24:08.91
Can you tell me what I dreamed?
00:24:08.94\00:24:10.55
He says, I'm anxious, I'm
frantic to know the dream.
00:24:10.58\00:24:13.86
And the Daniel say, no
I can't tell you the dream
00:24:13.89\00:24:16.81
and the king
starts to get mad again.
00:24:16.84\00:24:19.45
He goes-- he sort of goes crazy.
00:24:19.48\00:24:21.37
He says, then you
are a fraud. No, no.
00:24:21.40\00:24:24.75
Daniel says, I
can't tell you the dream
00:24:24.78\00:24:27.60
but there's a God in
heaven and the God of heaven
00:24:27.63\00:24:30.69
will tell the king his dream.
00:24:30.72\00:24:32.70
And then we're going to
read it to you out of Daniel 2.
00:24:32.73\00:24:39.18
We're gonna put it
up here. Here it is.
00:24:39.21\00:24:42.65
"No wise man,
enchanter, magician or diviner
00:24:42.68\00:24:47.19
can explain to the king the
mystery he has asked about,"
00:24:47.22\00:24:51.34
Okay. But he says,
00:24:51.37\00:24:54.05
"But there is a God in
Heaven who reveals mysteries.
00:24:54.08\00:24:58.68
He has shown King Nebuchadnezzar
00:24:58.71\00:25:00.37
what will happen
in days to come."
00:25:00.40\00:25:04.13
Now listen, as
you've never listened
00:25:04.16\00:25:09.18
before my beloved friends,
here in this great city,
00:25:09.21\00:25:13.71
in this wonderful country
00:25:13.74\00:25:15.93
and we've got tens of thousands
of people here tonight.
00:25:15.96\00:25:18.32
I don't know but
tens of thousands.
00:25:18.35\00:25:21.02
But I'm talking
to everyone of you
00:25:21.05\00:25:23.10
as though you
were in my living room
00:25:23.13\00:25:25.80
and I was talking
to you face to face.
00:25:25.83\00:25:28.83
I read to you from the word.
00:25:28.86\00:25:31.63
"As you were
lying there, O King,
00:25:31.66\00:25:34.97
your mind turned
to things to come
00:25:35.00\00:25:37.86
and the revealer of
mysteries showed you
00:25:37.89\00:25:42.07
what is going to happen.
00:25:42.10\00:25:45.41
You looked, O
king, and there before
00:25:45.44\00:25:48.38
you stood a large
statue, an enormous,
00:25:48.41\00:25:52.86
dazzling statue,
awesome in appearance.
00:25:52.89\00:25:57.49
The head of the
statue was made of pure gold,
00:25:57.52\00:26:02.91
it's chest and arms of silver,
00:26:02.94\00:26:05.87
its belly and things are bronze,
00:26:05.90\00:26:09.63
its legs of iron,
00:26:09.66\00:26:11.83
its feet partly of
iron and partly of clay.
00:26:11.86\00:26:18.20
While you were
watching, a rock was cut out,
00:26:18.23\00:26:22.80
but not by human hands.
00:26:22.83\00:26:26.50
It stuck the
statue on its feet of iron
00:26:26.53\00:26:30.43
and clay and smashed them.
00:26:30.46\00:26:34.59
Then the iron, the
clay, the bronze, the silver
00:26:34.62\00:26:40.24
and the gold were broken
to pieces at the same time."
00:26:40.27\00:26:46.35
And then it says, the
stone struck the statue
00:26:46.38\00:26:52.44
becomes like a great mountain.
00:26:52.47\00:26:55.48
But it says here,
"The whole thing breaks up
00:26:55.51\00:26:59.57
and became like chaff
00:26:59.60\00:27:01.13
on a threshing
floor in the summer.
00:27:01.16\00:27:04.58
The wind swept them
away without leaving a trace.
00:27:04.61\00:27:09.50
But the rock
that struck the statue
00:27:09.53\00:27:12.17
became a huge mountain
00:27:12.20\00:27:15.89
and filled the whole earth."
00:27:15.92\00:27:22.43
Now did you hear this?
00:27:22.46\00:27:26.21
The king has a dream.
00:27:26.24\00:27:28.56
God tells Daniel the same dream.
00:27:28.59\00:27:32.00
There's a great metal
man and the head is of gold,
00:27:32.03\00:27:38.24
the chest is of silver,
00:27:38.27\00:27:41.02
the belly and the
thighs are of bronze
00:27:41.05\00:27:44.21
and the legs are
part of iron, solid iron
00:27:44.24\00:27:48.74
and the feet are partly
of iron and partly of clay.
00:27:48.77\00:27:54.34
And then as he's watching
and spell bound fascination,
00:27:54.37\00:28:00.51
there comes a
tremendous stone out of the blue
00:28:00.54\00:28:04.12
and it strikes into the image
and the thing breaks into pieces
00:28:04.15\00:28:10.49
and the stone that
struck the great image
00:28:10.52\00:28:16.04
starts to grow and
to grow and to grow
00:28:16.07\00:28:20.97
and it becomes a great mountain
and it fills a whole earth,
00:28:21.00\00:28:26.84
but the great image becomes
like chaff and it's blown away.
00:28:26.87\00:28:34.72
The question is,
this is great question
00:28:34.75\00:28:39.40
that we're going
to talk about tonight.
00:28:39.43\00:28:42.58
What on earth-- what
on earth does it mean?
00:28:42.61\00:28:47.79
What is the meaning
of the great metal man?
00:28:47.82\00:28:52.33
What is the meaning
of the dream of destiny?
00:28:52.36\00:28:56.36
Paul the
evangelist says in the Bible,
00:28:59.13\00:29:01.88
that "God will finish His work
00:29:01.91\00:29:03.28
and cut it short
in righteousness."
00:29:03.31\00:29:05.82
The Prophet Joel says,
"God will pour out His spirit
00:29:05.85\00:29:08.56
in the last days, and
signs and wonders will follow."
00:29:08.59\00:29:11.81
The Carter Report
believes that we are now
00:29:11.84\00:29:14.07
in the end times and His
spirit is moving mightily.
00:29:14.10\00:29:18.54
During the Port Moresby campaign
00:29:18.57\00:29:20.61
we testify that we saw
the power of God revealed.
00:29:20.64\00:29:24.53
God hungry souls
00:29:24.56\00:29:27.13
could not get enough
of the word of the Lord
00:29:27.16\00:29:29.98
as at creation the Spirit of God
00:29:30.01\00:29:32.66
moved upon the
face of the waters
00:29:32.69\00:29:35.05
and God brought
cosmos out of chaos.
00:29:35.08\00:29:38.57
Souls were recreated in
the image of the Creator.
00:29:38.60\00:29:42.35
Instead of hate there was love.
00:29:42.38\00:29:44.51
Instead of
despair there was hope.
00:29:44.54\00:29:46.67
Instead of sorrow there was joy.
00:29:46.70\00:29:49.02
And in the place of
death God gave life.
00:29:49.05\00:29:52.49
One night as
John Carter preached
00:29:52.52\00:29:54.48
on the person and
work of the Holy Spirit
00:29:54.51\00:29:56.67
the image of a white bird
was flashed on the screens.
00:29:56.70\00:30:00.29
That moment a
great white bird flew low
00:30:00.32\00:30:03.49
over the
astonished congregation.
00:30:03.52\00:30:05.69
Cries of joy filled the
air as the audience recognized
00:30:05.72\00:30:09.22
that God had visited His people.
00:30:09.25\00:30:11.57
A mighty surge
of Pentecostal power
00:30:11.60\00:30:13.91
swept the
audience of 120,000 souls
00:30:13.94\00:30:17.59
and everyone present felt
00:30:17.62\00:30:19.46
the warm
comforting presence of God.
00:30:19.49\00:30:22.79
The Carter Report team
invites you my dear viewer
00:30:22.82\00:30:25.68
to be a partner in this work.
00:30:25.71\00:30:27.85
Soldiers of the
cross are wanted.
00:30:27.88\00:30:30.53
Faith partners are needed.
00:30:30.56\00:30:32.79
Write to us now,
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00:30:32.82\00:30:35.68
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00:30:35.71\00:30:41.25
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00:30:45.63\00:30:49.12
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00:30:49.15\00:30:53.08
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00:30:53.11\00:30:58.25
Now listen to me very carefully
00:31:00.90\00:31:02.54
I want to talk especially
to young people tonight.
00:31:02.57\00:31:07.39
I want to talk to skeptics.
00:31:07.42\00:31:10.10
I want to talk to atheists.
00:31:10.13\00:31:12.70
I want to talk to Christians.
00:31:12.73\00:31:15.35
I want to talk to every person
00:31:15.38\00:31:17.36
who's got an ear opened
to hear the truth of God.
00:31:17.39\00:31:22.05
"This dream foretold
00:31:22.08\00:31:26.54
the history of the world."
00:31:26.57\00:31:31.29
And it tells about
the next world ruler.
00:31:31.32\00:31:38.25
Now I'm going to
turn in the Bible
00:31:38.28\00:31:40.69
and I'm going to
turn to Daniel 2:36-40.
00:31:40.72\00:31:47.01
I want you to notice this
on these colossal screens.
00:31:47.04\00:31:53.89
He turns to the
king and he says,
00:31:53.92\00:31:57.17
Oh God has blessed you.
He's made you a mighty king.
00:31:57.20\00:32:00.96
You ruled the world he said.
00:32:00.99\00:32:03.15
"You are that head
of gold." Listen to me.
00:32:03.18\00:32:08.53
Head of gold on
the great metal man
00:32:08.56\00:32:12.41
represents the
kingdom of Babylon
00:32:12.44\00:32:15.14
that was ruled
by Nebuchadnezzar.
00:32:15.17\00:32:18.73
The next verse says,
00:32:18.76\00:32:20.78
"And after you another kingdom
will rise, inferior to you."
00:32:20.81\00:32:25.87
The chest of silver
represented a kingdom
00:32:25.90\00:32:31.42
that would come after Babylon
00:32:31.45\00:32:34.49
and the kingdom
that came after Babylon
00:32:34.52\00:32:37.57
was the kingdom of Medo-Persia
00:32:37.60\00:32:42.84
under Cyrus the great.
00:32:42.87\00:32:46.64
And the verse goes on to say.
00:32:46.67\00:32:50.42
"Next, a third
kingdom, one of bronze,
00:32:50.45\00:32:55.53
will rule over the whole earth."
00:32:55.56\00:32:58.96
Babylon, Medo-Persia
00:32:58.99\00:33:03.64
and the next great world
empire is the one of bronze,
00:33:03.67\00:33:09.23
it is the Kingdom
of Alexander the Great.
00:33:09.26\00:33:13.69
It is Greece. But
he is not through.
00:33:13.72\00:33:19.97
The next verse
says, Daniel 2:40.
00:33:20.00\00:33:25.97
"Finally, there
will be a fourth kingdom,
00:33:26.00\00:33:28.95
strong as iron."
00:33:28.98\00:33:32.61
And what happened was this,
00:33:32.64\00:33:35.41
that after Greece
that came a great empire
00:33:35.44\00:33:38.72
that was strong as iron
00:33:38.75\00:33:41.42
that marched around
the world on legs of iron,
00:33:41.45\00:33:48.62
it was the great
iron monarchy of Rome.
00:33:48.65\00:33:56.53
I've taken this
lecture around the world.
00:33:56.56\00:33:59.18
I would turn to the Russians
in there tens of thousands
00:33:59.21\00:34:04.33
and I would say, tell
me my Russian friends,
00:34:04.36\00:34:07.63
what is the
great monarchy of Rome?
00:34:07.66\00:34:10.91
What is the great iron empire?
00:34:10.94\00:34:13.42
And they would call
at the word Reem Reem,
00:34:13.45\00:34:17.03
which means Rome. So look at me.
00:34:17.06\00:34:21.67
Head of gold, Babylon.
00:34:21.70\00:34:23.94
Chest of silver, Medo-Persia.
00:34:23.97\00:34:26.69
Belly and thighs
of bronze, Greece.
00:34:26.72\00:34:29.06
Legs of iron, Rome.
00:34:29.09\00:34:35.05
I want to ask you something.
00:34:35.08\00:34:38.24
You're listening? I
want to ask you something.
00:34:38.27\00:34:42.43
How did a man living
in Babylon 2,500 years ago
00:34:42.46\00:34:48.98
know that the fourth empire
from the Babylonian Empire
00:34:49.01\00:34:53.65
would be as strong as iron
00:34:53.68\00:34:56.25
and it would crush
the whole wide world
00:34:56.28\00:34:59.48
and it would break it
down into a million pieces?
00:34:59.51\00:35:04.40
If there is no God in heaven,
00:35:04.43\00:35:07.26
how did he know in Babylon
that they would be Babylon,
00:35:07.29\00:35:12.26
Medo-Persia,
Greece and then Rome.
00:35:12.29\00:35:15.27
How did he know
that the fourth empire
00:35:15.30\00:35:17.72
would be the strong one
00:35:17.75\00:35:19.17
that would
march around the world
00:35:19.20\00:35:21.43
and that would crush
the whole world under foot?
00:35:21.46\00:35:24.32
I will tell you
how he knew my friend.
00:35:24.35\00:35:26.74
I will tell you how he knew.
00:35:26.77\00:35:28.52
It is because what
we are reading here
00:35:28.55\00:35:31.52
are not merely the words of men.
00:35:31.55\00:35:33.41
This is indeed the word of God.
00:35:33.44\00:35:37.62
Now what we're
going to do is this.
00:35:37.65\00:35:40.99
I'm going to show you
a few pictures of Persia,
00:35:41.02\00:35:43.49
Greece and Rome to show you
00:35:43.52\00:35:45.03
how archaeology
proves the Bible true
00:35:45.06\00:35:47.96
and how archaeology proves
that this prophecy is true.
00:35:47.99\00:35:51.75
I'm going to take
you firstly to Persia.
00:35:51.78\00:35:54.85
What a privilege I've had
00:35:54.88\00:35:56.92
to visit the
great land of Persia
00:35:56.95\00:35:58.80
that we call today Iran.
00:35:58.83\00:36:01.26
This is going right inside
the wonderful shahs palace,
00:36:01.29\00:36:05.75
or the palace of the
shahs, wonderful palace.
00:36:05.78\00:36:09.12
Then as we travel around Persia,
00:36:09.15\00:36:11.09
we see some amazing places
00:36:11.12\00:36:14.12
and I want you to see
some of these wonderful places.
00:36:14.15\00:36:16.51
Here are some of the
ancient Persian kings
00:36:16.54\00:36:19.71
that were represented
in the Bible prophecy
00:36:19.74\00:36:22.27
and there you see some
of the great Persian kings
00:36:22.30\00:36:26.12
that made the
world tremble and shake,
00:36:26.15\00:36:28.52
and they are
mentioned in Bible prophecy,
00:36:28.55\00:36:30.99
and they are
described in the Bible.
00:36:31.02\00:36:33.14
Remember, Babylon and
then you have Medo-Persia.
00:36:33.17\00:36:36.56
We're going to take you to some
of the wonderful places there.
00:36:36.59\00:36:38.99
This is Bucephalus, the temple
city of the Persian kings.
00:36:39.02\00:36:43.93
What a place it
was, so powerful.
00:36:43.96\00:36:47.67
Out there in the
desert I went and visited
00:36:47.70\00:36:49.63
some of the tombs
of the ancient kings.
00:36:49.66\00:36:52.59
They were potentates.
They were powerful men.
00:36:52.62\00:36:55.80
I went inside those tombs
and as I went to those places
00:36:55.83\00:36:58.66
we're gonna hold this one here.
00:36:58.69\00:37:00.44
This is an inscription
written by Xerxes the great.
00:37:00.47\00:37:05.15
And he is the king who
is mentioned in the Bible.
00:37:05.18\00:37:07.90
He is actually
mentioned in the Bible
00:37:07.93\00:37:10.39
we read it in the
Bible and we go to Bucephalus
00:37:10.42\00:37:13.89
and we read it there
in the ancient languages.
00:37:13.92\00:37:17.03
I tell you my friend, it
gives you the goosebumps.
00:37:17.06\00:37:19.76
You know, that you're not
dealing simply with myths.
00:37:19.79\00:37:22.61
You're dealing with
the facts of history.
00:37:22.64\00:37:25.58
This is the Behistun Rock,
00:37:25.61\00:37:27.86
an amazing thing written
in three different languages
00:37:27.89\00:37:32.37
and nobody could
understand those languages.
00:37:32.40\00:37:34.95
I want you to keep that
picture there on the screen
00:37:34.98\00:37:37.14
because I want to
tell you the amazing story
00:37:37.17\00:37:39.84
of this Behistun
Rock, it is amazing.
00:37:39.87\00:37:42.94
It is 345 feet
above ground level.
00:37:42.97\00:37:46.84
There was a British officer
00:37:46.87\00:37:48.24
living there in
Persia at this time
00:37:48.27\00:37:49.79
and his name was
Rawlinson, he was a scholar.
00:37:49.82\00:37:52.85
He got a series of
ladders and he climbed up
00:37:52.88\00:37:55.33
on the face of the mountain
00:37:55.36\00:37:58.12
and he copied by hand
the different writings,
00:37:58.15\00:38:01.47
the Persian, the
Assyrian and the Elamite
00:38:01.50\00:38:04.91
and he went back to camp
00:38:04.94\00:38:06.69
and he studied it
and he worked on it.
00:38:06.72\00:38:09.35
It was much more difficult
than the Rosetta Stone.
00:38:09.38\00:38:13.14
But the great Rawlinson
was able to work it out.
00:38:13.17\00:38:15.67
Now we have an understanding
of the Persian Empire
00:38:15.70\00:38:20.62
and we've discovered--
there it is the Behistun Rock,
00:38:20.65\00:38:25.41
an amazing story, but it
tells us that the Bible is true.
00:38:25.44\00:38:29.84
It tells us that
everything we're telling you
00:38:29.87\00:38:32.00
from this
prophecy, it is all true.
00:38:32.03\00:38:35.14
Babylon and then
you had Medo-Persia.
00:38:35.17\00:38:38.22
And the leader
of the Medo-Persians
00:38:38.25\00:38:40.10
was Cyrus the great.
00:38:40.13\00:38:41.50
He was the guy who is mentioned
by name before he was born.
00:38:41.53\00:38:45.53
This is the great temple city.
00:38:45.56\00:38:47.23
Here are some of the great
tombs of the Persian people.
00:38:47.26\00:38:51.73
But the Bible
says, the Persian Empire
00:38:51.76\00:38:54.72
was destined to go down
00:38:54.75\00:38:57.33
and there came a man
with tremendous authority
00:38:57.36\00:39:01.08
and tremendous power
and tremendous courage
00:39:01.11\00:39:04.60
and his name was
Alexander the Great.
00:39:04.63\00:39:10.48
And so Babylon had gone
and Medo-Persia had gone
00:39:10.51\00:39:15.18
and now there came the
empire of Greece. Look at me.
00:39:15.21\00:39:19.62
Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece
00:39:19.65\00:39:23.46
and this is the
kingdom of Greece.
00:39:23.49\00:39:26.80
What remains of the old kingdom
00:39:26.83\00:39:28.41
that is the famous Parthenon
which means the virgin.
00:39:28.44\00:39:32.58
This was a temple
where they worship
00:39:32.61\00:39:34.40
the Virgin, Queen of Heaven.
00:39:34.43\00:39:36.53
You see the ancients
worship many, many Gods
00:39:36.56\00:39:39.06
and one of their chief
gods was the Queen of Heaven.
00:39:39.09\00:39:43.32
Some of these
places are actually
00:39:43.35\00:39:45.10
mentioned in the Bible
00:39:45.13\00:39:46.83
such as Mars Hill
and the marketplace.
00:39:46.86\00:39:50.25
This is the stoa
which is been reconstructed
00:39:50.28\00:39:53.25
by the American
School of Oriental Research.
00:39:53.28\00:39:57.71
As I walked around the acropolis
00:39:57.74\00:40:00.82
because that is
what it is called.
00:40:00.85\00:40:02.96
I thought of the
great dream of destiny
00:40:02.99\00:40:06.39
and I said to myself.
Yes, the Bible is right.
00:40:06.42\00:40:10.22
It was right about Babylon.
00:40:10.25\00:40:12.43
It was right about Medo-Persia.
00:40:12.46\00:40:15.50
It was right about
Alexander the Great.
00:40:15.53\00:40:18.63
It was right about Greece.
00:40:18.66\00:40:20.94
Now what about the legs of iron?
00:40:20.97\00:40:23.80
History tells me
that around 1060 B.C.
00:40:23.83\00:40:28.45
there came the power
of the Roman Caesars.
00:40:28.48\00:40:36.36
The iron monarchy of Rome
00:40:36.39\00:40:41.84
with all its power still
remains today much of it.
00:40:41.87\00:40:47.88
We can see the
splendor and the broken rooms
00:40:47.91\00:40:50.94
like at the pantheon,
the temple of all the gods
00:40:50.97\00:40:55.06
with its concrete roof
that has been standing there.
00:40:55.09\00:40:58.62
And this is the arch of Titus.
00:40:58.65\00:41:01.96
Titus was the soldier who
overthrew the city of Jerusalem.
00:41:01.99\00:41:06.67
And that was also predicted
in the prophecies of the Bible.
00:41:06.70\00:41:12.18
There you have the coliseum
with sitting for 50,000 people
00:41:12.21\00:41:17.85
that is where the gladiators
would spill their blood
00:41:17.88\00:41:21.94
but that is not
where the Christians
00:41:21.97\00:41:24.38
were thrown to the lions.
00:41:24.41\00:41:26.77
They were thrown to the
lions up at Circus Maximus
00:41:26.80\00:41:30.54
that had room for 250,000 souls
00:41:30.57\00:41:35.50
who cheered as the
Christians were put to death.
00:41:35.53\00:41:42.62
But I would remind you tonight
00:41:42.65\00:41:45.99
that Caesar has gone,
but Christ lives on forever.
00:41:46.02\00:41:52.07
Would remind you that.
00:41:52.10\00:41:53.91
These are the
gates, the great doors
00:41:53.94\00:41:57.66
that went into the
form and other buildings
00:41:57.69\00:42:01.60
they have been converted into
so called Christian churches.
00:42:01.63\00:42:04.82
Now pause and wonder,
00:42:04.85\00:42:09.50
inside the arch of Titus
00:42:09.53\00:42:14.20
you have the seven
golden candlesticks
00:42:14.23\00:42:17.85
that the Roman soldiers took out
00:42:17.88\00:42:20.26
of the Jewish
temple in Jerusalem.
00:42:20.29\00:42:25.02
Jesus Christ, our Lord predicted
00:42:25.05\00:42:28.97
that Jerusalem
would be destroyed
00:42:29.00\00:42:31.81
and the temple
would be laid waste.
00:42:31.84\00:42:35.51
Every word of
the prophecy of Jesus
00:42:35.54\00:42:39.28
came to pass as you
can see on the screen.
00:42:39.31\00:42:46.72
Can you understand?
00:42:46.75\00:42:49.42
There you can
see where the chariot
00:42:49.45\00:42:50.82
used to roll down the
streets after 2,000 years.
00:42:50.85\00:42:53.48
You can still see
the marks in the road.
00:42:53.51\00:42:56.53
There you have the catacombs
00:42:56.56\00:42:58.41
where the
Christians placed their dead,
00:42:58.44\00:43:01.02
but also where they had
their religious services.
00:43:01.05\00:43:04.64
They were persecuted by Rome,
00:43:04.67\00:43:08.05
but you cannot
kill the truth of God,
00:43:08.08\00:43:11.98
I want you to know that.
00:43:12.01\00:43:16.65
You folks, just listen to me
00:43:16.68\00:43:19.03
whether you are a
believer or a non believer
00:43:19.06\00:43:21.90
or whether you are an atheist,
whether you are a Christian,
00:43:21.93\00:43:25.54
I don't care
tonight, God loves you all.
00:43:25.57\00:43:29.80
God loves people.
00:43:29.83\00:43:32.89
God loves white
people, He loves black people.
00:43:32.92\00:43:36.44
He loves brown people,
He loves yellow people.
00:43:36.47\00:43:39.99
He loves communists.
00:43:40.02\00:43:42.63
He loves everybody,
He loves the Hindus,
00:43:42.66\00:43:45.22
He loves the Muslims.
00:43:45.25\00:43:46.85
God loves people and I
want you to know tonight
00:43:46.88\00:43:50.67
I don't care who
you are, God loves you.
00:43:50.70\00:43:54.46
He loves you, He cares for you.
00:43:54.49\00:43:56.81
Christ died for you.
I want you to know that.
00:43:56.84\00:44:01.55
But Rome didn't believe this.
00:44:01.58\00:44:03.97
Rome didn't believe
in a gospel of peace.
00:44:04.00\00:44:06.87
Rome didn't believe
in a gospel of love.
00:44:06.90\00:44:10.33
Rome believed in
a gospel of blood
00:44:10.36\00:44:13.66
and the gospel of the sword.
00:44:13.69\00:44:18.51
You folks, look at me.
00:44:18.54\00:44:21.14
Great metal man,
head of gold, Babylon.
00:44:21.17\00:44:25.21
Chest of silver, Medo-Persia.
00:44:25.24\00:44:29.46
Belly and thighs
of bronze, Greece.
00:44:29.49\00:44:33.81
Legs of iron, Rome.
00:44:33.84\00:44:38.91
And this was
written 2,500 years ago.
00:44:38.94\00:44:43.75
But what happens next?
00:44:43.78\00:44:45.39
Well, we gonna read a
text out of the Bible.
00:44:45.42\00:44:49.47
What happens next?
00:44:49.50\00:44:50.87
We gonna read a
text out of the Bible.
00:44:50.90\00:44:54.81
And I am gonna read to
you from Daniel 2:41-43.
00:44:54.84\00:45:01.15
We gonna read it
slowly and clearly
00:45:01.18\00:45:04.30
off the giant screens, okay.
00:45:04.33\00:45:07.69
"Just as you saw
that the feet and toes
00:45:07.72\00:45:10.63
were partly of baked
clay and partly of iron,
00:45:10.66\00:45:15.33
so this will be a
divided kingdom..."
00:45:15.36\00:45:21.28
"So the people will be a mixture
and will not remain united,
00:45:21.31\00:45:27.35
any more than
iron mixes with clay."
00:45:27.38\00:45:32.83
The Bible says that after
Rome, the fourth great empire,
00:45:32.86\00:45:39.00
there would not
be a fifth empire.
00:45:39.03\00:45:41.71
It says the
kingdom will be divided.
00:45:41.74\00:45:49.69
It is a fact that
between 300 and 500 A.D.
00:45:49.72\00:45:57.65
the Roman Empire was broken up
00:45:57.68\00:46:00.31
into the kingdoms
and the states of Europe.
00:46:00.34\00:46:06.50
The Roman Empire
rotted from within.
00:46:06.53\00:46:11.17
The barbarians from the north
00:46:11.20\00:46:13.63
came down like a
wolf on the food.
00:46:13.66\00:46:20.06
The Roman
Empire was not followed
00:46:20.09\00:46:22.09
by another world empire,
00:46:22.12\00:46:26.86
but it broke up
into the kingdoms
00:46:26.89\00:46:28.59
and the states of Europe.
00:46:28.62\00:46:31.89
Therefore these are
some of the kingdoms
00:46:31.92\00:46:34.34
we put up on the screen.
00:46:34.37\00:46:36.32
You don't need to try to
memorize them. Heruli gone.
00:46:36.35\00:46:41.95
But you can see up
there talks about the race
00:46:41.98\00:46:44.95
that came from,
became the Germans,
00:46:44.98\00:46:48.13
Burgundians became the Swiss,
00:46:48.16\00:46:50.78
the Franks, the
French and so forth.
00:46:50.81\00:46:53.38
But the Roman
Empire was not followed
00:46:53.41\00:46:56.69
by another world empire.
00:46:56.72\00:46:58.09
It broke up into
the kingdoms of Europe.
00:46:58.12\00:47:00.33
Now listen. Please get this.
00:47:00.36\00:47:04.42
He's a man in Babylon,
a king. He has a dream.
00:47:04.45\00:47:09.74
Doesn't know what it means,
00:47:09.77\00:47:11.23
so he called in
the prophet of God.
00:47:11.26\00:47:13.06
God gives the prophet
of God the same dream.
00:47:13.09\00:47:17.63
Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece.
00:47:17.66\00:47:23.45
And then you get down to Rome
00:47:23.48\00:47:25.59
and then you have
division, you have division.
00:47:25.62\00:47:29.17
You have the feet and the toes
00:47:29.20\00:47:31.76
and the Bible
says that represents
00:47:31.79\00:47:34.49
the break up of the Roman Empire
00:47:34.52\00:47:37.91
into the kingdoms
and the states of Europe.
00:47:37.94\00:47:41.03
I have news for you tonight,
00:47:41.06\00:47:43.86
every word of the
prophecy came to pass.
00:47:43.89\00:47:49.18
Every word came to pass.
00:47:49.21\00:47:54.47
Now the prophet said this.
00:47:54.50\00:47:57.80
He said they shall
not cling one to another.
00:47:57.83\00:48:00.21
That's what it says in
the King James Version.
00:48:00.24\00:48:03.14
It says all those powers in
Europe they'll do their best.
00:48:03.17\00:48:07.27
They'll have a Euro
zone, they had a common market.
00:48:07.30\00:48:11.39
They'll have all sorts of things
00:48:11.42\00:48:12.96
and they will go
through all types of gymnastics.
00:48:12.99\00:48:15.37
But the prophet said, and these
are the words of the Bible.
00:48:15.40\00:48:19.81
"They will never
be united again."
00:48:19.84\00:48:27.78
History tells me there
had been a group of people
00:48:27.81\00:48:32.51
who have tried to unite Europe.
00:48:32.54\00:48:35.72
Yes, there was Napoleon,
00:48:35.75\00:48:37.94
who set out to tear
the heart out of glory
00:48:37.97\00:48:42.05
but a snowflake
kissed his cheek in Russia
00:48:42.08\00:48:46.03
and he went down into oblivion.
00:48:46.06\00:48:49.40
More closer to our time,
00:48:49.43\00:48:51.64
there was the
Kaiser and there was Hitler
00:48:51.67\00:48:56.26
trying to bring about another
world empire and rule the world.
00:48:56.29\00:49:03.01
And people will say,
"Well, who's going to do it?
00:49:03.04\00:49:06.04
Who's going to do-- who is going
to be the next world ruler?"
00:49:06.07\00:49:13.97
Well the Bible tells us.
00:49:14.00\00:49:17.80
Now we come my beloved friend
to the climax of the prophecy
00:49:17.83\00:49:25.20
and I am going
to turn in my Bible.
00:49:25.23\00:49:28.75
Let me see now. Let me see now.
00:49:28.78\00:49:33.04
Here it is. Daniel 2:44-45.
00:49:33.07\00:49:40.06
Daniel 2:44-45.
00:49:40.09\00:49:47.58
You're ready?
00:49:47.61\00:49:50.28
You're wondering that the
stone represents, aren't you?
00:49:50.31\00:49:53.84
The great stone that
comes, well, here it is,
00:49:53.87\00:49:57.88
"In the time of those
kings, the God of heaven
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will set up a kingdom
that will never be destroyed,
00:50:01.55\00:50:06.79
nor will it be
left to another people.
00:50:06.82\00:50:10.45
It will crush all those kingdoms
and bring them to an end,
00:50:10.48\00:50:15.85
but it will
itself endure forever.
00:50:15.88\00:50:20.38
'This is the meaning
of the vision of the rock
00:50:20.41\00:50:22.93
cut out of the mountain,
but not by human hands.
00:50:22.96\00:50:28.32
A rock that broke
the iron, the bronze,
00:50:28.35\00:50:31.89
the clay, the silver
and the gold to pieces.
00:50:31.92\00:50:37.19
'The great God
has shown the king
00:50:37.22\00:50:39.48
what will take
place in the future.
00:50:39.51\00:50:43.00
The dream is true
and the interpretation
00:50:43.03\00:50:47.97
is trustworthy.'" Listen to me.
00:50:48.00\00:50:55.75
You got to see this
and you will tonight
00:50:55.78\00:50:57.36
because this is plain
as the nose on your face.
00:50:57.39\00:51:01.86
Head of gold, what could it be?
00:51:01.89\00:51:05.46
Babylon. The chest is
of silver, Medo-Persia.
00:51:05.49\00:51:08.57
The belly and
the thighs of bronze,
00:51:08.60\00:51:11.64
yes, yes, yes.
00:51:11.67\00:51:13.04
Babylon, Medo-Persia then you
come to the thighs, its Greece.
00:51:13.07\00:51:19.10
And then you come
to the iron legs, Rome.
00:51:19.13\00:51:22.70
And then you come to the
break up of the Roman Empire
00:51:22.73\00:51:26.15
into the kingdoms
and the states of Europe.
00:51:26.18\00:51:28.34
And then comes the stone.
00:51:28.37\00:51:34.10
It is the kingdom of God.
00:51:34.13\00:51:37.10
The next word ruler my friend,
00:51:37.13\00:51:39.92
I've news for you
is the kingdom of God.
00:51:39.95\00:51:46.56
It is the kingdom of
God, it will not be Russia,
00:51:46.59\00:51:50.23
it will not be China,
00:51:50.26\00:51:52.02
it will not be the United States
of America or any other power.
00:51:52.05\00:51:56.84
I've news for you
there's a new kingdom coming
00:51:56.87\00:52:01.53
and it is the kingdom of God.
00:52:01.56\00:52:05.91
I am amazed, aren't you?
00:52:05.94\00:52:09.22
Two and half
thousand years ago in Babylon
00:52:09.25\00:52:11.47
I said to the skeptic,
"how on earth did he know?"
00:52:11.50\00:52:15.52
I'll tell you how he
knew. God told him so.
00:52:15.55\00:52:21.21
And I want you to know
tonight that God loves you.
00:52:21.24\00:52:25.35
He has got you in His
hands. He cares for you.
00:52:25.38\00:52:29.97
He has a plan and a
purpose for this planet.
00:52:30.00\00:52:33.77
There's no doubt about that.
00:52:33.80\00:52:37.28
The next great event in
the history of Port Moresby
00:52:37.31\00:52:42.01
or Australia or the
United States of America
00:52:42.04\00:52:44.84
or Russia, this
entire world my friend
00:52:44.87\00:52:47.71
is the coming of
the stone of destiny.
00:52:47.74\00:52:52.88
Jesus Christ is going to be
00:52:52.91\00:52:57.16
the next world ruler.
00:52:57.19\00:53:01.95
And I want you to know this
00:53:01.98\00:53:04.94
that he's got a
place for you there.
00:53:04.97\00:53:08.51
Did you know that?
00:53:08.54\00:53:10.08
There's a room for
you in His kingdom.
00:53:10.11\00:53:14.86
He's got a place
for you in His kingdom.
00:53:14.89\00:53:20.59
Christ came down from
heaven and died on the cross
00:53:20.62\00:53:24.79
that you and I might
have a place in His kingdom
00:53:24.82\00:53:28.68
because he loves us so.
00:53:28.71\00:53:31.77
And what we're going to do
now, this is so very important.
00:53:31.80\00:53:36.55
We're going to
have a prayer together.
00:53:36.58\00:53:39.34
And I hope that every one
of us will send home a message
00:53:39.37\00:53:42.25
to God tonight and
we're going to say,
00:53:42.28\00:53:44.40
"Lord, by your grace
00:53:44.43\00:53:47.80
I want to be a
citizen of your kingdom."
00:53:47.83\00:53:51.21
Now I want you to stand
00:53:51.24\00:53:53.04
and we're going
to pray together.
00:53:53.07\00:53:56.25
Want you all to stand.
00:53:56.28\00:53:58.61
We're going to bow our heads
00:53:58.64\00:54:01.48
and we're going
to pray together.
00:54:01.51\00:54:05.78
Now look at me,
you all watching.
00:54:05.81\00:54:12.43
There may be some
here tonight you feel,
00:54:12.46\00:54:14.16
you say, "I am too bad."
00:54:14.19\00:54:16.78
Nobody is too bad for God.
00:54:16.81\00:54:19.65
Somebody may say, "But
I've committed terrible crimes."
00:54:19.68\00:54:22.95
If you turn to God,
God will take care of this.
00:54:22.98\00:54:26.07
There may be some here
tonight and you will say,
00:54:26.10\00:54:28.45
"I am too weak
to follow Christ."
00:54:28.48\00:54:31.28
It doesn't depend upon
your strength my friend,
00:54:31.31\00:54:34.64
it depends upon His strength.
00:54:34.67\00:54:37.52
And if you and I
will lift up our hands
00:54:37.55\00:54:39.44
and our hearts to God tonight,
00:54:39.47\00:54:42.24
He will make us citizens of
His coming kingdom of glory.
00:54:42.27\00:54:47.51
Now let us bow our heads
and let us pray together.
00:54:47.54\00:54:52.34
Our Father, we just want
00:54:52.37\00:54:53.74
to thank you
tonight for your great love.
00:54:53.77\00:54:57.37
We want to thank you
for Your great goodness
00:54:57.40\00:54:59.45
and Your grace and Your mercy.
00:54:59.48\00:55:02.45
We want to thank You
that God so loved the world
00:55:02.48\00:55:06.97
that He gave His only Son,
00:55:07.00\00:55:09.67
so that whoever believes
in Him shall not perish,
00:55:09.70\00:55:13.58
but have everlasting life.
00:55:13.61\00:55:17.46
We thank you Lord for
this great amazing prophecy
00:55:17.49\00:55:21.03
that tells us that
there's a God in heaven
00:55:21.06\00:55:23.43
and that the Bible is true
and the Jesus is coming again.
00:55:23.46\00:55:30.04
And there's room for every
one of us in the kingdom of God
00:55:30.07\00:55:34.81
if we'll just turn to
God and give Him our hearts.
00:55:34.84\00:55:39.13
And as we're praying here
tonight in this great stadium
00:55:39.16\00:55:43.46
with so many thousands of people
00:55:43.49\00:55:45.50
standing in the presence of God,
00:55:45.53\00:55:46.90
I don't know how many
tens of thousands are here.
00:55:46.93\00:55:50.85
But how many tonight
would lift up a hand and say,
00:55:50.88\00:55:54.33
"Dear Lord, I want to be
a part of the kingdom of God
00:55:54.36\00:55:59.15
and I want Jesus to
come into my heart tonight."
00:55:59.18\00:56:03.05
Could you raise your hand
tonight if that is your prayer?
00:56:03.08\00:56:06.93
Tonight I want to
believe in you God.
00:56:06.96\00:56:11.92
I want to believe in the Bible
00:56:11.95\00:56:14.82
and I want to be
part of Your kingdom
00:56:14.85\00:56:18.18
that is coming so very soon.
00:56:18.21\00:56:20.70
And as we lift up
our hands tonight,
00:56:20.73\00:56:23.77
we lift up our
hearts and we say,
00:56:23.80\00:56:25.84
"Oh, God, bless us tonight.
00:56:25.87\00:56:29.61
Come into our hears
tonight and bless us
00:56:29.64\00:56:32.89
with the forgiveness of our sins
00:56:32.92\00:56:35.87
and grant us peace
and everlasting life."
00:56:35.90\00:56:40.59
Oh my Father, tonight I pray
00:56:40.62\00:56:43.66
that You will bless
these thousands and thousands,
00:56:43.69\00:56:47.08
I don't know how
many tens of thousands--
00:56:47.11\00:56:49.97
more than I can see.
00:56:50.00\00:56:52.11
Bless these tens of
thousands of earnest souls
00:56:52.14\00:56:56.46
as we lift up our
hearts to You tonight.
00:56:56.49\00:57:01.03
Bless these precious
people and save us all
00:57:01.06\00:57:06.98
when Jesus comes and
we thank youin Jesus name.
00:57:07.01\00:57:14.30
Amen. Amen.
00:57:14.33\00:57:17.95
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